The tension between North Korea and South Korea is real and has lasted for decades.

It seems to be taking a break at the Rio Games.

A North Korean and South Korean gymnast made headlines earlier this week when they took a selfie together. And on Wednesday, athletes from South Korea and North Korea stood on the same Olympic podium together.

Jin Jongoh of South Korea won the gold medal in the 50-meter men's pistol event. Kim Song Guk of North Korea took the bronze in the same event. It was the first time since 2004 _ when it happened on three occasions _ that the two nations shared the same Olympic medal podium. (It bears noting they've shared podiums at other competitions since, including the Asian Games.)

The rival Koreas have been engaged in Cold War-era psychological warfare after the North's fourth nuclear test in January. Seoul began blaring anti-Pyongyang broadcasts and K-Pop songs via border loudspeakers, and Pyongyang responded by its own border broadcasts and launches of balloons carrying anti-South leaflets.

The rivals are divided along the world's most heavily fortified border since their war in the early 1950s ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.

Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

TOKYO (AP) — An expert panel set up by Tokyo's newly elected governor says the price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken. That's more than a four-fold increase from the initial estimate at the time Tokyo was awarded the games in 2013.